Your closing comment reminds me of two "Rules to Live By" I learned in my 22+ year military career:
Rule 1. "Don't ask the question if you're afraid of the answer." Rule 2. "It is sometimes better to ask for forgiveness afterwards than to get permission first." 73, Eric Lemmon WB6FLY -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Morris WA6ILQ Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 5:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] NWS SAME Decoder? <snip> Don't give them any opening to say NO. If you have a good reasonable reason to do something, do it on a private limited use system at your house. If it works out, do it (or move it) to an open wide area coverage system. That's how the first remote base in the Southern Calif area got put up in the mid 1950s - first on a garage repeater, then on a mountaintop. The remote control was a rotary telephone dial pulsing an audio oscillator. Nobody asked "is it legal?" They just did it. Mike WA6ILQ
